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Definition: Dace |
DaceNoun1. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dace" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Etymology: Dace \Dace\, noun. [Written also dare, dart, from French dard dase, dart, of German origin. Dace is for an older darce, from an Old French nom. darz. See Dart javelin.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | DACE. Two pence. Tip me a dace; lend me two pence. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DACE | Dutch | Nederlandse Stichting voor Kostentechniek | Economics |
DACE | English | Dutch Association of Cost Engineers | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DaceSynonym: Leuciscus leuciscus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dace |
| English words defined with "dace": Cyprinidae ♦ Dobule ♦ family Cyprinidae ♦ genus Leuciscus ♦ Horned dace ♦ Leuciscus ♦ Redfin ♦ Sea dace, Sea perch, Spawn eater. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dace" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.72% of the time. "Dace" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.72% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.64% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.64% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dace" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dace | Last name | 300 | 26,679 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "dace": Horned dace ♦ red dace ♦ sea dace. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dace | 24 |
dace wear | 11 |
dace tom | 6 |
dace rainbow | 4 |
dace uss | 3 |
dace finescale | 3 |
dace last save | 3 |
dace move | 2 |
dace northern redbelly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dace"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الداس سمك نهري. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид клен. (various references) | |
Danish | strømskalle, almindelig strømskalle. (various references) | |
Dutch | DACE (Dutch Association of Cost Engineers), serpeling, Nederlandse Stichting voor Kostentechniek (Dutch Association of Cost Engineers). (various references) | |
Finnish | seipi. (various references) | |
French | dard (dart), vaudoise, vandoise, meunier argenté, cabotin. (various references) | |
German | weißfisch (roach, whiting). (various references) | |
Greek | κέφαλος (chub, common grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, graining, Mediterranean chub, mullet, skelly, striped mullet), λευκίσκοσ (whitening). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragadozó ölyv. (various references) | |
Italian | leucisco, cavedano (chub, graining, Mediterranean chub, skelly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 石斑魚 (chub). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うぐい (chub). (various references) | |
Manx | dease. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aceday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peixe de água doce (fresh water shrimp, freshwater fish, lucent), escalo do sul. (various references) | |
Romanian | clean (chub). (various references) | |
Russian | елец. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | crvenperka (redstart, robin), belica (minnow, white-fish). (various references) | |
Spanish | leucisco común, albur (common grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, gudgeon, striped mullet). (various references) | |
Swedish | stäm. (various references) | |
Turkish | çamça. (various references) | |
Ukranian | ялець, плітка (buzz, gup, noise), плотва (roach). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Leuciscus leuciscus, Leuciscus leuciscus(Linnaeus,1758), Leuciscus rostratus, Squalius leuciscus, Squalius rostratus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dace": daces. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dace": vendace. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dace": orchidaceous, predaceous, predaceousness, predaceousnesses, vendaces. (additional references) | |
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"Dace" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aace, adace, adcm, adoce, Adpcm, cdtce, Dabco, dabe, dac, daca, daced, dacet, Dacey, dach, dacia, Dacic, D'acier, Dack, dackel, Dacm, Dacom, dacot, dacs, dact, dacum, dacy, dae, daec, Dage, daje, daki, dakt, Darco, d'arco, dasa, D'ascq, Dase, dashe, Dasi, D'assi, Dassu, dauc, dave, daxe, daye, dcd, dce, dci, deace, decem, decet, dech, deci, deec, deke, delce, derce, desce, diac, dica, dicee, diche, Dicle, dico, Dicu, diec, dikce, dioce, Djassi, dlco, Dmac, Doake, doce, doche, doci, docu, doec, Doyce, draca, draci, dtac, dtake, ducem, ducen, duoce, dutce, dyaki, Dyche, edace, Odacir, sdece. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dace" (pronounced dā"s) |
| 2 | -ā" s | Ace, apace, base, brace, case, chase, debase, deface, disgrace, displace, efface, embrace, encase, erase, face, glace, grace, incase, interlace, lace, Mace, misplace, pace, place, race, replace, retrace, space, trace, vase. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aced, cade. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e" | |
-1 letter: ace, cad. | |
-2 letters: ad, ae, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e" | |
+1 letter: ached, acned, acred, acted, arced, cades, cadet, cadge, cadre, caged, caked, caned, caped, cared, cased, caved, cawed, cedar, clade, daces, dance, decaf, decal, decay, faced, laced, maced, paced, raced. | |
+2 letters: abduce, accede, acedia, acnode, adduce, advect, advice, alcade, arcade, arched, arcked, ascend, bached, backed, braced, cabbed, cabled, cached, caddie, cadent, cadets, cadged, cadger, cadges, cadres, calked, called, calmed, calved, camped, candle, canned, canoed, canted, capped, carded, carder, caried, carked, carped, carted, carved, cashed, casked, catted, caudex, caudle, caused, ceased, cedarn, cedars, cedula, chafed, chared, chased, chawed, clades, clawed, clayed, coaled, coated, coaxed, codeia, cohead, colead, comade, cradle, craned, craped, crated, craved, crazed, credal, dacker, danced, dancer, dances, deacon, decade, decafs, decals, decamp, decane, decant, decare, decays, declaw, deface, detach, echard, facade, farced, graced, hacked, jacked, lacked, lanced, macled, nacred, packed, peaced, placed, racked, reclad, redact, redcap, sacked, sacred, sauced, scaled, scaped, scared, spaced, tacked, talced, traced, yacked. | |
+3 letters: abduced, abduces, academe, academy, acceded, acceder, accedes, accidie, accrued, accused, acedias, acnodes, acrider, adduced, adducer, adduces, advance, advects, advices, aecidia, alcades, alcaide, alcalde, alcayde, alcoved, amerced, arcaded, arcades, ardency, ascends, batched, beached, belaced, blacked, bracted, brocade, cabined, cackled, cadaver, caddice, caddied, caddies, cadelle, cadence, cadency, cadenza, cadgers, caducei, cairned, cajoled, caldera, calends, calqued, cameoed, canaled, candela, candent, candied, candies, candled, candler, candles, capered, carbide, carders, cardiae, caroled, caromed, carried, cascade, casqued, castled, catered, cathead, cathode, caudate, caudles, caulked, caviled, cedilla, cedulas, celadon, cerated, chaffed, chained, chaired, chalked, chamade, champed, chanced, changed, chanted, chapped, charade, charged, charked, charmed, charred, charted, chasmed, chassed, chatted, cheated, cheddar, cicadae, citadel, clacked, cladode, clagged, claimed, clammed, clamped, clanged, clanked, clapped, clashed, clasped, classed, cleaned, cleared, cleated, cleaved, cloaked, coached, coacted, coapted, coasted, cockade, codable, codeias, codeina, coheads, coleads, comrade, congaed, cordage, cordate, corrade, couvade, craaled, crabbed, cracked, cradled, cradler, cradles, crafted, cragged, crammed, cramped, cranked, crapped, crashed, crawled, creaked, creamed, creased, created, creedal, croaked, crusade, cudbear, curated, cyanide, dackers, dancers, deacons, debacle, debauch, decadal, decades, decagon, decalog, decamps, decanal, decanes, decants, decapod, decares, decayed, decayer, decease, deciare, decidua, decimal, declaim, declare, declass, declaws, decrial, decuman, defaced, defacer, defaces, dejecta, deltaic, descant, detract, dewclaw, dialect, dictate, dieback, discase, dockage, dogface, durance, echards, echidna, edacity, edaphic, edictal, educate, effaced, enacted, encaged, encased, endarch, enfaced, enlaced, escaped, exacted, facades, faceted, faciend, fancied, flacked, fracted, glaceed, glanced, hackled, hatched, hexadic, incaged, incased, inlaced, jaunced, keycard, knacked, latched, leached, located, mackled, maculed, marched, matched, medevac, mediacy, medical, menaced, nuanced, palaced, pandect, parched, patched, peached, peascod, pedicab, pedocal, peracid, poached, pranced, quacked, racemed, radicel, radices, radicle, ranched, reached, reacted, recaned, redacts, redcaps, redcoat, refaced, relaced, roached, saccade, scabbed, scalade, scalded, scalped, scammed, scamped, scanned, scanted, scarfed, scarped, scarred, scarted, scathed, scatted, scraped, sidecar, slacked, smacked, snacked, solaced, stacked, swacked, tackled, tacnode, talcked, thacked, tracked, traduce, tranced, unacted, uncaged, uncaked, uncased, unlaced, vacated, vendace, watched, whacked, wracked, yachted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 63 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38676971 |
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